the rebuild of the code is coming along nicely... much more quickly than i expected. had i not been so busy/lazy this weekend i think i might could have finished it even... but i think one more uninterrupted weekend will be enough to polish it off. the only thing that irritates me is that, because im deliberately going outside my comfort zone on this code and using techniques that i need to learn (but dont presently know beyond the barest academic sense), everything is almost certainly as bad as it can possibly be and still work.

a year or two from now im going to look back at this latest iteration and think its one of the worst things ive ever written. but i guess that shouldnt be a surprise, because i feel that way EVERY time i go back and redo the code for the site... i wonder if there will ever come a time that i code my own site in the same way i would a clients, where im not trying one experiment or another and instead just shooting for solid, reliable, quality code?

considering theres always something new to learn, and its always going to be safer learning it on my own code (where nobody gets fired or sued if it isnt perfect)... probably not...